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Ramblings & Learnings

These are my own personal ramblings (probably on academia) and learnings.
I’m mainly writing these to force myself to reflect and to practise my writing, so any feedback is welcome!

Rebuilding my homelab Kubernetes cluster with OpenTofu

Homelab
Kubernetes
Self-hosted
Tailscale
OpenTofu
Jun 12, 2026
Mateus Harrington

Finally, Grafana (Part 4)

Homelab
Kubernetes
Self-hosted
Tailscale
Grafana
Prometheus
Monitoring
May 26, 2026
Mateus Harrington

The Tailscale saga (Part 3): one ACL, four broken things

Homelab
Kubernetes
Self-hosted
Talos Linux
Tailscale
Immich
May 25, 2026
Mateus Harrington

Flux v2 and SOPS (Part 2): making git the source of truth

Homelab
Kubernetes
Self-hosted
Flux
SOPs
GitOps
May 24, 2026
Mateus Harrington

From TrueNAS to Kubernetes (Part 1): why, and picking the stack

Homelab
Kubernetes
Self-hosted
Talos Linux
Proxmox
May 23, 2026
Mateus Harrington

From TrueNAS apps to a Talos Kubernetes cluster — the long way round

Homelab
Kubernetes
Self-hosted
Talos Linux
Flux
Tailscale
Grafana
May 22, 2026
Mateus Harrington

Homelab adventures!

Homelab
Docker
Self-hosted
Git
May 9, 2026
Mateus Harrington

Keyboard soldering adventures

Soldering
Keyboards
Jun 1, 2025
Mateus Harrington

Testing Normality in R

R
Demo
Statistics
Oct 21, 2022
Mateus Harrington

Progress in open research!

Academia
Reproducible Research
Publications
Journals
Open Research
Jan 26, 2022
Mateus Harrington

How might science be done better?

Academia
Reproducible Research
Fantasising
May 11, 2021
Mateus Harrington

The Sovereign of Science

Academia
Reproducible Research
Rant
May 10, 2021
Mateus Harrington

First Publication!

Academia
Paper
Explainer
Jul 27, 2020
Mateus Harrington

Testing Out Blogdown

Demo
R Markdown
Jun 5, 2020
Mateus Harrington
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